WWE Network... It's Here

[Lee]

The ECW TVs are all over the place too, and not consistent with the season sets that people have online. Some of the episodes for example will have more (or less) than 14 days between them where a missing episode should go between them. In fact:

#260 is listed as April 18th, but #261 is listed as April 20th, two days later. #262 is then listed as May 2nd, 12 days later, followed by #263 on May 6th, four days later, then #264 is listed as May 16th, ten days later.

 

If you go back earlier in the year, #254 is down as March 2nd, #255 is missing, and #256 is listed as March 21st, so there's a 19 day discrepancy between the two available episodes.

 

Later on, #272 is listed for July 11th, #273 is July 13th, and #274 is July 25th. There's 14 days between #272 and #274, so surely #273 should be July 18th, not 13th. That same weird numbering gap shows up again for #276-#278 (August 8th, August 10th, August 22nd), and is followed by #279 (August 24th, another two day gap) and September 5th (14 days after #279).

he exact same thing happens again twice more that year, in October and November, but it's such a strange anomaly because they aren't listed like that consistently at patterned intervals, rather seemingly more arbitrarily.

[Sidebottom]

I need to drop into this thread more often, I didn't know so much ECW was up.

[sek69]

The last two days have been another ECW TV mega dump. What I find weird is how there's like a four year gap from 2006-2010 where there's no episodes of Raw at all. I went to go re-watch the build to WM and the Ric Flair retirement show, and imagine my surprise when there is none available.

[JRH]

I wonder what happened to Legends with JBL. There were already episodes taped with Jimmy Hart, Michael Hayes, and Booker T, so they do have those episodes ready to air. I hope they arent being delayed because they were too controversial (the preview for the hayes episode has him implying that Gino may have been murdered, and the preview for the Booker episode has JBL asking him about Hogans racist rant).

[Robert S]

(...) the preview for the hayes episode has him implying that Gino may have been murdered (...)

Didn't Gary Hart do the same in the WCCW DVD documentary that is on the network as well?

[flyonthewall2983]

I don't think Gary Hart believed that, but that he just overdosed. I can't remember if he said it on the WWE DVD, but in the Heroes of World Class doc David Manning said he thought there was foul play.

[Robert S]

On the Heroes of World Class documentary Gary Hart actually went with the non-foul play story. On both documentaries Hart was in tears when talking about Gino's death. I guess Gary Hart took Gino's death much harder than all the other WCCW deaths as he blamed himself for it (and he probably was much closer to Gino than to any of the Von Erichs). I think the story was that Gino called Gary one or two days before his death which was basically a cry for help and Gary Hart did not take it seriously enough.

[sek69]

Wasn't the amount of cocaine found in Gino's system several times higher than even the biggest addict would consume at one time? That combined with him possibly pissing off people capable of putting a hit on someone seemed to be the rationale behind the foul play story.

 

Plus there's probably folks connected to WCCW at the time who still believe David died of ruptured intestines from being kicked in a match that was scheduled a day or two after his death so anyone from that era should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Loss]

How come the dates listed for many PPVs on the Network are off by a day? Watched some random WCW today, every one was off by a day. Checked out a few other WWF shows and similarly off by a day. Really odd.

 

Do we have any archivists here with any insight on this? It sounds like something they did on purpose, maybe even to get around a system glitch or something.

[TheDuke]

I ordered the Network tonight to have it in time for Wrestlemania for the first time. I should say it is a good cheap way to watch a payperview, but that seems like the only reason for it. Maybe it is because of where I live in Canada or who my TV service provider is, but there is no on demand content and no way to view on demand programming on the website as my provider is not listed. So there is only the live feed, which besides the PPVs and specials, the only actual wrestling programming seems to be NXT and I guess Superstars. The rest seems to be WWE's crap reality and informational programming that I avoid already on the regular tv. Very disappointing.

[goc]

Ohh yea you Canadians got screwed. The Network is totally different in the U.S.

[Ricky Jackson]

Just get a VPN for your computer ($50 a year) and sign up for the US version dude

[WingedEagle]

I'd pay another $9.99 a month if they added a show that covered Brock being transported to and from every show. I can only imagine the shit fit he must throw dealing with traffic going to Barclays Center. It would legit be the best original programming on the network.

[cowboy hats]

Brock on the subway!

[...TG]

I'd pay another $9.99 a month if they added a show that covered Brock being transported to and from every show. I can only imagine the shit fit he must throw dealing with traffic going to Barclays Center. It would legit be the best original programming on the network.

I'd love to see an Anthony Bourdain-style travel show starring Brock. Except every episode ends with Brock giving an F-5 to his local guide and immediately going to the airport and back to Minnesota.

[Matt D]

It'd be like An Idiot Abroad.

 

"I have to go to the god damn Great Wall of China? Why?"

[Infinit]

I ordered the Network tonight to have it in time for Wrestlemania for the first time. I should say it is a good cheap way to watch a payperview, but that seems like the only reason for it. Maybe it is because of where I live in Canada or who my TV service provider is, but there is no on demand content and no way to view on demand programming on the website as my provider is not listed. So there is only the live feed, which besides the PPVs and specials, the only actual wrestling programming seems to be NXT and I guess Superstars. The rest seems to be WWE's crap reality and informational programming that I avoid already on the regular tv. Very disappointing.

You can also access the Network online through your cable account for the rest of the network features.

[Bix]

 

I ordered the Network tonight to have it in time for Wrestlemania for the first time. I should say it is a good cheap way to watch a payperview, but that seems like the only reason for it. Maybe it is because of where I live in Canada or who my TV service provider is, but there is no on demand content and no way to view on demand programming on the website as my provider is not listed. So there is only the live feed, which besides the PPVs and specials, the only actual wrestling programming seems to be NXT and I guess Superstars. The rest seems to be WWE's crap reality and informational programming that I avoid already on the regular tv. Very disappointing.

You can also access the Network online through your cable account for the rest of the network features.

Apparently some Canadian cable companies don't have that feature with the Network.

[Johnny Sorrow]

The "Thank You Bryan" show tonight was outstanding. And amongst other things showed how much of a great dude Mark Henry is.

[clintthecrippler]

 

I'd pay another $9.99 a month if they added a show that covered Brock being transported to and from every show. I can only imagine the shit fit he must throw dealing with traffic going to Barclays Center. It would legit be the best original programming on the network.

I'd love to see an Anthony Bourdain-style travel show starring Brock. Except every episode ends begins with Brock giving an F-5 to his local guide and immediately going to the airport and back to Minnesota.

 

[WingedEagle]

 

I'd pay another $9.99 a month if they added a show that covered Brock being transported to and from every show. I can only imagine the shit fit he must throw dealing with traffic going to Barclays Center. It would legit be the best original programming on the network.

I'd love to see an Anthony Bourdain-style travel show starring Brock. Except every episode ends with Brock giving an F-5 to his local guide and immediately going to the airport and back to Minnesota.

 

 

Forget wrestling. This would be the best comedy on television until Veep & Silicon Valley return. Maybe even then, depending on Brock's temper.

[Slasher]

I don't think so. Brock would definitely be surly and shit but I don't think he would want to play that up for a tv show he wouldn't even have wanted to do in the first place. I imagine Brock's personality would be short or abrupt and just accomplishing the episode goal in as quick a manner as possible so he can get out of there. He probably couldn't really get into bantering with people even if he was playing up an intimidating surly s.o.b. aspect of himself.

[flyonthewall2983]

Has Bret Hart commented at all on making them take down the Stampede footage yet?

[C.S.]

I watched the Michael Hayes episode of Legends with JBL. It was surprisingly hard-hitting. He addresses whether he's a racist, goes into the Mark Henry situation, and talks about the Confederate Flag. He also tells a bunch of great stories about the Freebirds and shares a controversial theory about the death of Geno Hernandez. Plus, he's rocking an insane purple getup that only he could pull off. Really great episode, and I think it might change some minds about Michael Hayes.

[The Thread Killer]

I watched the Michael Hayes episode of Legends with JBL. It was surprisingly hard-hitting. He addresses whether he's a racist, goes into the Mark Henry situation, and talks about the Confederate Flag. He also tells a bunch of great stories about the Freebirds and shares a controversial theory about the death of Geno Hernandez. Plus, he's rocking an insane purple getup that only he could pull off. Really great episode, and I think it might change some minds about Michael Hayes.

 

It sure changed my mind about Hayes. I used to think he was a drunk, racist moron. Now I think he's delusional drunk racist moron, who dresses like Jack Nicholson in Batman.

 

JBL jumped all over the place with his questions, but even worse was Michael Hays claiming that back in the 70's and 80's the Confederate Flag wasn't considered the racist symbol that it is today...that's a recent thing. He actually had the balls to act somewhat puzzled about people thinking he was racist, like JBL had to explain it to him, then he understood.

 

Oh, and he only used "The N Word" because he used to listen to a lot of Richard Pryor albums, so he thought it was okay for people to call each other that.

 

And when he did use it with Mark Henry, he was drunk.

 

And by the way, he's not racist, because he has a black daughter.

 

Well, not black, half-black.

 

Well, she wasn't his daughter, she was his second wife's daughter, from a previous marriage.

 

And she never lived with them when he was with his second wife.

 

And he and his second wife are not together anymore.

 

But he still has a good relationship with her daughter.

 

So...not racist, see?

 

Michael Hays came across as staggeringly disingenuous and self-deluded to me in this interview. He's one of those old timers who is such a carny I think he's actually conned himself into believing some of his own bullshit.

 

We won't even get into the bizarre "If David Von Erich had lived, Fritz might have beat Vince McMahon to nation expansion" theory that he and JBL discussed, or his bizarre answers on the Gino Hernandez questions. "I don't believe he overdosed, but I'm not saying he was murdered, but I'm not saying anything else, no matter how many times you ask."